Collaborative Happiness
Building the Good Life in Urban Cohousing Communities
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2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-316-0 (ISBN)
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-316-0 (ISBN)
Understudied relative to other forms of intentional community, and under-recognized in policy-making circles, urban cohousing communities situate wellbeing as simultaneously social and subjective, while catering for groups of people so diverse in age. Collaborative Happiness looks at two such urban cohousing communities: Kankanmori, in Tokyo; and Quayside Village, in Vancouver. In expanding beyond mainstream approaches to happiness focused exclusively on the individual, Quayside Village and Kankanmori provide an alternative model for how to understand and practice the good life in an increasingly urbanized world marked by crisis of both social and environmental sustainability.
Catherine Kingfisher is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of Lethbridge. She is the author of A Policy Travelogue: Tracing Welfare Reform in Aotearoa/New Zealand and Canada (Berghahn, 2013) and Women in the American Welfare Trap (UPenn, 1996). She is also the editor of Western Welfare in Decline: Globalization and Women's Poverty (UPenn, 2002)
List of Illustrations
Introduction: How Urban Cohousing Communities Can Expand How We Think about Wellbeing
Chapter 1. Kankanmori and Quayside Village: An Overview
Chapter 2. Quayside Village
Chapter 3. Kankanmori
Chapter 4. The Exchanges
Conclusion: Policies of Wellbeing
Appendix: The Film Shorts
References
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 06.03.2024 |
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Reihe/Serie | Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations |
Verlagsort | Oxford |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-80539-316-2 / 1805393162 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-80539-316-0 / 9781805393160 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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